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[Les Harris]

I am doing something wrong and I can't home in on what it is.  I have EMC 7 and have used it in the past to burn DVDs.  Today, I set out to burn a DVD using Creator Classic, set the option on the bottom of the window to 4.7 G, selected the files, clicked on Burn and it told me that I needed 5 CDs.  Somewhere I must have missed selecting the DVD default but I can't work out where.  Is there a guru who can set me right?

Thanks

Les Harris

[Les Harris]

Forgot to mention that the status bar along the bottom correctly estimates the size of the file and the space left over, which is correct for a DVD but impossible for a CD.  This has me bluffed.  Why does it estimate for a DVD, then tell me that I need 5 CDs?

Les Harris

[Jim_Hardin]

Don't know…

Reboot?

If you have a DVD RW, I would click Burn and see what happens.

[Les Harris]

Don't know…

Reboot?

If you have a DVD RW, I would click Burn and see what happens.

It is when I click Burn that it tells me that I need 5 CDs.  With a blank DVD in the drive, it offers me a range of CD formats to use, not DVDs.  I have used the same drive in the recent past to burn DVDs.  The Tutorial won't open either (I wanted to check that to se if I had missed something) and it might be a case of reinstall the whole thing.

[lynn98109]

Are the discs from a batch that you have used with this drive before?  Or from a new batch?

What is the id string of the drive? (right-click MyComputer > Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > click on the DVD/CD-ROM icon and copy off the id string, character for character (upper and lower case exactly), space for space.

I am thinking this might be an older drive encountering newer discs without a firmware update.

Lynn

[Les Harris]

I am thinking this might be an older drive encountering newer discs without a firmware update.

Lynn
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Lynn,

Same computer, same drive, same blank DVDs, same everything.  It is looking more and more like a reinstall.

Les